Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

When I heard that there's a remake of the first Broken Sword, it flared up a dormant desire inside me to relive the nightmare. I played this way back in college as a dare from one of my friends who lent me the game and called it 'The most boring game' ever created. I slapped it in my Playstation and I was hooked to the story ever since, minus the puzzles. I painstakingly finished the game in 2 months (one month of thinking on how to get past the GOAT in Ireland. That's 30 days, 2 hours a day, before I call it quits and swap to other games <insert Final Fantasy VII, or VIII, or Tomb Raider, or other new games that may come>). At that time, there was no internet yet. Google was created three years after playing this in 97 (but there's already gameFAQs to check, or is there?). So there's no way of cheating your way to solve these point and click games before, but to play and enjoy the tormenting puzzles. I'm just reliving the nostalgia of whacking my brains, try to figure out 'the next thing' to do. Which, by the way, had been my key to a successful career of troubleshooting Network Problems (Information Technology), thanks to these types of games. The game is not for everybody, if you enjoy the feeling of solving puzzles (or have an itch in your brain, whenever you can't figure out, the 'why'), and had mastered thinking and dropping your logic at the same time, then I think you'll enjoy this game. Otherwise, it's just another number statistic in you game list, and never bother opening.

是三十年前的老游戏，steam头图的照骗程度堪比网页右下角小广告 画风和剧情推进方式都太“古朴”了，没有什么至今仍算惊艳的创意，但和所有能保存下来的老物件一样，堆料的扎实程度远超同期同类型作品。

I love that I can show my inventory to everyone I meet. WHy arE yOu shoWiNG mE ThiS nApkIN you fOUnd? Because.

They did a great job updating the graphics but keeping the underlaying menu system, character movement, and audio the same as the original made playing it a struggle. It should not have tried to honor the original's format, but instead tried to modernize it further.

好消息：我等到了遊戲出繁中的一天 壞消息：翻譯得不好，例如在Patrick's酒吧的「吧台揭板／擋板」翻譯做「孵化」 這高低起伏的心情變化 :\

30 years later, this remains one of the very bests point and click ever made. And now it's even better.

I'm a huge fan of old school point and clicks, and the Gabriel Knight series is one of my favorites. Thought this might give me a little of that, but this just isn't in the same ballpark as GK. The characters, when they're not uninteresting and well-trodden stereotypes, are about as interesting as cardboard, especially the main character, who has absolutely no personality aside from occasionally making self-referential "jokes." The story is plodding, with too much time spent where absolutely nothing happens, and when something does happen, it's too brief. In short, it has terrible pacing, even by the standards of the era. The puzzles are almost nonexistent. 95% of the game is talking to NPCs and exhausting every dialog choice. This would be somewhat acceptable if the characters were more interesting, but they are not. This would be acceptable if these characters had anything to say, if there was any insight or worldbuilding in the things they said, but they just simply answer your queries in matter of fact ways until you stumble across the dialog choice that moves the story forward. I suppose they did a decent job with the remaster, but I honestly prefer the old graphics. There's also a weird glitch where the scenes get darker and lighter seemingly at random. Not sure I'll finish this one, it's just very bland. I come to old school point and clicks for the idiosyncratic charm, and this game just has no rizz. They did a perfectly good job remastering this, but it just doesn't hold up. So many other more interesting games from this era that I have yet to play, so I'll probably just move on.

Ich habe das Spiel im Original gefühlt hundertmal gespielt. Hab ich trotzdem Geld ausgegeben um es in hübscherer Grafik zu spielen? (mehr ist wirklich nicht anders) JA! Werde ich es noch hundertmal spielen? Ja!